"This will be very comfortable. Her favor was sought beyond all women’s favors. The times were such that, with the opinions he entertained, he could not remain idle. Gerald’s thoughts raced as he reached out supporting hands and murmured meaningless phrases to soothe. The noise was raucous. You needn’t be in any doubt about it. She could have dined alone in her room; but courage had demanded that she face the ordeal and have done with it. —Give me the letters, my love," she added aloud, and in her most winning accents; "they're some wicked forgeries. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be acquainted. " "It wasn't the fumes of whisky that toppled him out of his chair. We have known men who have come here for no other purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life, only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne.
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